Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
RAILROAD NEWS.

The Utah & Northern Company have a
force of men employed in putting in a
standard gauge turntable at Spring Hill. A
new round house will 500 be built near
the turntable.
Beginning on May 10. and continuing
| throughout the warm season, the Northern
Pacific will run refrigerator cars out OF st.
Paul and Minneapolis every Wednesday
and Saturday, and run them as far West
as Spokane Falls, for the accommodation
of ~perishable freight. Consignments for
these cars should be marked Northern Pa
cific Refrigerator Line" st. Paul or Min
neapolis.
A party of twenty-five graders began
work on the Philipsburg & Drummond
road about a mile below + hilipsburg Tues
day and are making swift progress. The
Mail sass an army of men are daily being
brought to bear upon the line and work all
along it's entire extent is fairly in progress.
1t will have a stretch of nine miles OF
straight track devoid of curves.
Colonel Broadwater, President of the
| Montana Central, has received the follow.
ing dispatch from J.. N. Egan, of St. Paul:
last week on the Montana extension of the
Manitoba, though construction was de-
layed part of the time by rain. Every
thing is progressing fayorably. The track
is now seventy-one miles west Of Minot."
The Northern Pacific has entered suit
against the Cannon Brothers, of Helena, to
recover possession of 100 acres of it's grant.
which they secured patent on as mineral
ground several years ago. 1t is claimed
that the company has J. st most valuable
agricultural land by means OF the mineral
land dodge worked by Spectators, and the
company is determined to test the ques-
ton OF whether or not lands which contain
some mineral. but not enough to pay for
working, is sufficient to disbar them from
entry as agricultural lands.
A private letter from Billings to a Hell
ena gentleman says, on the authority Of
Chief Engineer Knowlton, that the 0 n
tracts for grading the Rocky Forks Coal
Road will be let early in May. and that
the road will be pushed to completion as
soon thereafter as possible. The company
has arranged for the erection OF fifty dou-
bic houses for miners, work upon which
will begin as soon as the saw mill is in oper-
alton. Developments in the mines show a
ledge OF coal 100 feet thick. 1t is pro-
nounced by experts to be better for fuel
purposes than the Illinois or Iowa coal,
and some of it will coke.
New Northwest: Mr.. E. L. Bonner, who
returned from the Philipsburg g. Bitter
Root Railroads Wednesday, says work is
booming on the Philipsburg Road. Over
300 teams and q propor'iona+e number Of
men are employed. Some OF the squads
who took grading contracts on the D.. & P.
road will have their work completed in
ten days and then GO tn the NJ. e. B. R.
road. 1t is expected the entire road will
be graded early in July and that, 10 I'M
foreseen obstacles arising, the cars will be
running into Philipsburg by the 10th or
18th of August. On the Missoula & Bitter
Root road the line from a point six miles
sectioned and ready for the graders, who
are now going in. The Missoula end and
neal and above S~tevensville has not yet
been definitely located. but will be shortly.